{"podcast":{"title":"Delving In with Stuart Kelter","slug":"delving-in-with-stuart-kelter-5848973","podcast_index_feed_id":5848973,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/delving-in/","website_url":"https://delving-in.captivate.fm","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/ad94544c-e15e-4196-9402-c13f599bfdfa/wnwGKikP8HU8St2LkavDpw7h.jpg","author":"Stuart Kelter","episode_count":192,"summary":"Knowledge-seeker and psychologist Stuart Kelter shares his joy of learning and “delving in.” Ready? Let’s delve... Join Chris Churchill on the possible reasons why the search for intelligent life in the universe is coming up empty. Let’s hear from Israeli psychiatrist Pesach Lichtenberg about a promising approach to schizophrenia—going mainstream in Israel—that uses minimal drugs and maximal support through the crisis, rejecting the presumption of life-long disability. Find out what Pulitzer Prize winning historian, David Kertzer learned from recently opened Vatican records about Pius XII, the Pope During WWII. We explore the fascinating and intriguing... What did journalist Eve Fairbanks learn about race relations in post-Apartheid South Africa? Did you realize there were dozens and dozens of early women scientists? Let’s find out about them through a sampling of poems with poet Jessy Randall. How shall we grapple with the complexities of the placebo effect in drug development and medical practice? Harvard researcher Kathryn Hall confirms just how complicated it really is! But beware: increasing one’s knowledge leads to more and more questions. If that appeals to you, join us on…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-29T04:18:26.132097+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/delving-in-with-stuart-kelter-5848973"},"episode":{"title":"#191. On Growing Up in Revolutionary Iran","slug":"191-on-growing-up-in-revolutionary-iran","published_at":"2026-06-28T22:15:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/delving-in-with-stuart-kelter-5848973/191-on-growing-up-in-revolutionary-iran","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/delving-in-with-stuart-kelter-5848973","url":"https://delving-in.captivate.fm","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d9aa9c6e-4677-406e-a7f9-488be8d11377.mp3","summary":"Jacqueline Saper is an award-winning writer, public speaker, commentator, and translator, with columns and essays in national and international publications and interviews in mainstream media in both English and Farsi. We’ll be talking about her memoir, published in 2019, From Miniskirt to Hijab: A Girl in Revolutionary Iran, which chronicles her life from childhood to early adulthood in Iran, which spans the last 16 years of the rule of the Shah, as well as the first ten years following the Islamic Revolution. The book ends, at age 26, with her emigration to the United States with her husband and two children. The memoir provides a highly personalized account of what it was like to grow up in Iran in tumultuous times, a multifaceted story informed by multiple ethnic identities. Recorded 6/23/26.","meta_description":"Jacqueline Saper is an award-winning writer, public speaker, commentator, and translator, with columns and essays in national and international publicatio…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3302,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/delving-in-with-stuart-kelter-5848973/episodes/191-on-growing-up-in-revolutionary-iran/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/delving-in-with-stuart-kelter-5848973/191-on-growing-up-in-revolutionary-iran.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}